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Among the simple, routine things that CBS News didn't do was consult a physician. That helps mark the boundary between journalism and propaganda. Bari Weiss is decidedly in the latter category.
January 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Among the simple, routine things that CBS News didn't do was consult a physician. That helps mark the boundary between journalism and propaganda. Bari Weiss is decidedly in the latter category.
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This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
www.huffpost.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:29 AM
This could be the unified Dem position. It is wildly popular. Puts the regime on defense on two fronts at the same time. Good policy, good politics.
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The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
January 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
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The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.
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"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
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MSNBC (1938): Hitler takes a different view on Jews.
MSNBC reporter presents Trump's shameful racism towards Somalis as merely "a different view"
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
MSNBC (1938): Hitler takes a different view on Jews.
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[shot]
There’s at least one GOP super PAC pushing last-minute phone banking efforts for the past couple weeks, TN Republicans are frantic behind the scenes about losing a seat they won by 20+ last cycle
Special elections are legendarily squirrelly but whatever happens next, that’s NOT nothing
Special elections are legendarily squirrelly but whatever happens next, that’s NOT nothing
of course you're paying attention to this race but I thought this write-up was very good, first I'd heard of her
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
[shot]
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Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump
Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Thread about an actual drug smuggler who’s about to be pardoned by Trump
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When troops are deployed overseas in places they absolutely should not be because of a warmonger ass president, and they are killed by someone who acted on their own accord, we typically don’t have a problem blaming the U.S. commander in chief
"In the months leading up to the D.C. deployment, Beckstrom worked for a community health center that serves people with mental illness and substance abuse disorders." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
When troops are deployed overseas in places they absolutely should not be because of a warmonger ass president, and they are killed by someone who acted on their own accord, we typically don’t have a problem blaming the U.S. commander in chief
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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Dana should have not screwed fighters . They got any person with sense not wanting this
UFC knows it’s got a problem cause it stay advertising retired fighters cause no one can identify the current roster.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Dana should have not screwed fighters . They got any person with sense not wanting this
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Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated.
Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.
Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.
NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power.
Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated.
Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.
Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.
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How can Democratic candidates win special elections with 22 point swings while the Democratic Party has such low approval ratings?
The answer isn’t hard to figure out. And it’s not because voters think national Democrats are doing too much and going too far in opposition to Trump’s abuses.
The answer isn’t hard to figure out. And it’s not because voters think national Democrats are doing too much and going too far in opposition to Trump’s abuses.
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa.
This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%.
This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%.
This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
August 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
How can Democratic candidates win special elections with 22 point swings while the Democratic Party has such low approval ratings?
The answer isn’t hard to figure out. And it’s not because voters think national Democrats are doing too much and going too far in opposition to Trump’s abuses.
The answer isn’t hard to figure out. And it’s not because voters think national Democrats are doing too much and going too far in opposition to Trump’s abuses.
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There are two political conversations underway.
There's the inside-the-DC bubble with lots of fretting by Dem strategists accompained by pessimistic reporting from the savvy media
then, there are the results playing out across the country
the results matter way more than the punditry
There's the inside-the-DC bubble with lots of fretting by Dem strategists accompained by pessimistic reporting from the savvy media
then, there are the results playing out across the country
the results matter way more than the punditry
We've just updated our special election Big Board with Drey's big win (10.46 pts, not 11 as stated above).
Across 34 special elections this year, Dems are outperforming last year's presidential results by an average of 16 points. That's far ahead of 2017-18.
Across 34 special elections this year, Dems are outperforming last year's presidential results by an average of 16 points. That's far ahead of 2017-18.
The Downballot's special elections Big Board for the 2025-26 cycle
docs.google.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
There are two political conversations underway.
There's the inside-the-DC bubble with lots of fretting by Dem strategists accompained by pessimistic reporting from the savvy media
then, there are the results playing out across the country
the results matter way more than the punditry
There's the inside-the-DC bubble with lots of fretting by Dem strategists accompained by pessimistic reporting from the savvy media
then, there are the results playing out across the country
the results matter way more than the punditry
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oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing
Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.
August 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing
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He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
June 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore.
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
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Not long ago, MAGA would have said you're supposed to shoot masked guys in keffiyehs who attack you on the street and try to abduct you.
Hell, they even screamed "terrorist scarf" and threatened to boycott when Rachel Ray wore a keffiyeh-inspired wrap in a Dunkin' Donuts ad!
Hell, they even screamed "terrorist scarf" and threatened to boycott when Rachel Ray wore a keffiyeh-inspired wrap in a Dunkin' Donuts ad!
June 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Not long ago, MAGA would have said you're supposed to shoot masked guys in keffiyehs who attack you on the street and try to abduct you.
Hell, they even screamed "terrorist scarf" and threatened to boycott when Rachel Ray wore a keffiyeh-inspired wrap in a Dunkin' Donuts ad!
Hell, they even screamed "terrorist scarf" and threatened to boycott when Rachel Ray wore a keffiyeh-inspired wrap in a Dunkin' Donuts ad!
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Status quo politics is a recipe for losing.
Ditch bipartisanship and quantbrain “popularism”, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Get out there and LEAD public opinion, not just mirror it to support the status quo
Ditch bipartisanship and quantbrain “popularism”, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Get out there and LEAD public opinion, not just mirror it to support the status quo
ENTEN: “.. Polling shows that Trump's lost the political battle over the LA protests, even as immigration had been his best issue.”
@cnn.com
@cnn.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Status quo politics is a recipe for losing.
Ditch bipartisanship and quantbrain “popularism”, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Get out there and LEAD public opinion, not just mirror it to support the status quo
Ditch bipartisanship and quantbrain “popularism”, @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Get out there and LEAD public opinion, not just mirror it to support the status quo
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yes it’s a big mystery why people who think empathy is evil don’t become therapists
The idea that conservative ideology should be equally represented in everything is ironically a very liberal idea
June 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
yes it’s a big mystery why people who think empathy is evil don’t become therapists
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I want the people who have told me since 2017 that some magical military man would stop Trump from launching a nuke to see footage like this
TRUMP: Los Angeles would be burning today, just like their houses were burning months ago. Generations of Army heroes did not shed their blood on distant shores only to watch our country be destroyed by invasion ... as commander in chief, I will not let that happen
FORT BRAGG TROOPS: *Hurrrraa!*
FORT BRAGG TROOPS: *Hurrrraa!*
June 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I want the people who have told me since 2017 that some magical military man would stop Trump from launching a nuke to see footage like this
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One of the memes on the left is about how cops can contain one 1000 person march but not ten 100 person marches and honestly just having *two* marches in the same city a small distance away from each other can debilitate a police force
June 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
One of the memes on the left is about how cops can contain one 1000 person march but not ten 100 person marches and honestly just having *two* marches in the same city a small distance away from each other can debilitate a police force
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People need to go to jail for this, and Dems need to be out there saying that people need to go to jail for this
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
People need to go to jail for this, and Dems need to be out there saying that people need to go to jail for this
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Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.
June 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.
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If they use the Insurrection Act to crack down on protests, they're likely to spur an actual insurrection. That would not be good for anyone.
Pretty clearly setting the stage to use the Insurrection Act to crack down on domestic protests within the US.
June 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If they use the Insurrection Act to crack down on protests, they're likely to spur an actual insurrection. That would not be good for anyone.